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evolutionary

[ev-uh-loo-shuh-ner-ee, ee-vuh-] / ˌɛv əˈlu ʃəˌnɛr i, ˌi və- /
ADJECTIVE
pertaining to evolution or development
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To address this, the team created a revised dataset and developed a new evolutionary framework for tylosaurs.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2026

Now, scientists have a new clue as to why: Research links right-hand bias with evolutionary brain development and upright walking.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

“The environment in which they lived has been evolving since their absence,” says evolutionary biologist Vincent J. Lynch of the University at Buffalo.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

To understand how this happened, we needed to piece together a complex evolutionary puzzle.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

From those earliest Semitic alphabets, one line of blueprint copying and evolutionary modification led via early Arabian alphabets to the modern Ethiopian alphabet.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond



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